Introduction

Analogue: A Hate Story is a western visual novel created by Christine Love and released in early 2012. It's technically a sequel to the 2010 Digital: A Love Story, but the only connection is the setting - no characters persist between the two, and Analogue takes place hundreds of years in Digital's future, so no familiarity with the first game is necessary.

Things to know:

Analogue is about a derelict colony ship that was found after going missing for hundreds of years. The player plays the role of an investigator using the ship's computer to interact with the resident AIs and figure out what happened on the ship. In a bigger sense, Analogue is about transhumanism, women's rights, traditional marriage, LGBT issues, future anthropology, and loneliness.

Analogue has a lot of reading. It is, in fact, practically a text adventure.

Despite being a western-developed game, Analogue is still pretty anime. If that isn't your cup of tea, you may not enjoy it.

Analogue touches on some pretty dark and serious themes. It can be more than a little heavy-handed about them at times. There are some parts that may make some readers uncomfortable - I'll warn about them in advance, and TIMG the relevant sections in case you want to skip over them.

This LP won't have a strict daily update schedule, but I'll try to keep new updates coming every 2-3 days. The reason for the delay is that the game is highly nonlinear, and I'm going to be opening decisions to audience vote on a regular basis. Voting on binary decisions will get 24 hours, more complicated decisions will get 48.

No spoilers, even under spoiler tags. Speculation is allowed and encouraged.

Mugunghwa Profiles*Hyun-ae
The Mugunghwa's archival AI. Cooperating with us to unravel the story of what happened on the ship.

*Mute
The Mungunghwa's security AI. Blames *Hyun-ae for the deaths of the people on the ship.

Kim Jung-su
Father of Kim Yeong-seok. And old-fashioned man greatly concerned for the continued prosperity of the Kim family. Released the Pale Bride from stasis.

Kim Yeong-seok
Adopted son of Kim Jung-Su, after his father's death in 316. As the heir, he planned to become high magistrate and surpass his late father.In Year 322, he succeeded in his ambition.

Kim Yeong-seok's wife
Name unknown. Had a very unfavorable first impression of the Pale Bride. Good at math - often helped her husband with matters of state.

Oh So-jin
Smith Sang-min's wife. Constantly struggled with getting her husband's attention and affections. Involved in some sort of huge scandal.The scandal: She had an affair with her husband's concubine.

Ryu In-ho
Last Captain and Emperor of the Mugunghwa.

Ryu Jae-hwa
First wife of Captain Ryu. Was nervous at the prospect of her husband taking on a second wife.Also Captain Ryu's sister.

Smith Kyung-sam
Only son of Dai-ho. Had no faith in the main Smith branch's future. Possibly a scoundrel.

Smith Sang-jung
Youngest son of Dai-hyun. Alcoholic, often cleaned up after the mistakes of his brothers. Eventually drank himself to death. *Mute was in love with him.

Smith Sang-hi
Older sister of Sang-min. Was widowed in 317.

Smith Sang-kyu
Middle son of Dai-hyun. A violent and abrasive man.

Smith Sang-min
Oldest son of Dai-hyun. A competent high magistrate, but with a tendency to let his affections wander. Was fired in Year 322 due to an excess of embarrassing scandals.

The Pale Bride
Second wife of Captain Ryu. Had been in cryo-stasis since an unknown time in the distant past, in hopes of finding a cure for an unknown disease. Very much an outsider to this culture.Real name: Kim Hyun-ae.